xv, 604 pages : 26 cm

A recent renaissance in the field of "event" stratigraphy has promoted a much more thorough examination of the geologic record of particular fossil-bearing strata. This reference work compiles the findings of leading researchers on fossil beds, epiboles and global bioevents, mapping out a definitive temporal and regional classification of event horizons. Based primarily on research with Lower and Middle Paleozoic rocks of eastern North America, 'this volume significantly links these events to relatively short-term phenomena, including storms and climate-forcing cycles. An invaluable resource for specialists and students in the fields of paleontology, paleoecology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology, Paleontological Events helps to clarify the biological and taphonomic significance of these horizons

Includes bibliographical references and index

Fossil Lagerstätten : stratigraphic record of paleontological and taphonomic events / Carlton E. Brett, Gordon C. Baird and Stephen E. Speyer -- Taphonomic constraints on event horizons : short-term time averaging of Anadara brasiliana valves, St. Catherines Island, Georgia / Harold B. Rollins and Ronald R. West -- Counting fossils in a Cincinnatian storm bed : spatial resolution in the fossil record / Arnold I. Miller -- The ichnological signature of storm deposits : the use of trace fossils in event stratigraphy / S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern -- Prasopora-bearing event beds in the Coburn limestone (Bryozoa, Ordovician, Pennsylvania) / Roger J. Cuffey -- Paleoecology and comparative taphonomy of an Isotelus (Trilobita) fossil Lagerstätten from the Waynesville Formation (Upper Ordovician, Cincinnatian series) of southwestern Ohio / Gregory A. Schumacher and Douglas L. Shrake -- Silurian event horizons related to the evolution and ecology of pentamerid brachiopods / Markes E. Johnson -- The Homocrinus beds : Silurian crinoid Lagerstätten of western New York and southern Ontario / Carlton E. Brett and Wendy L. Taylor -- Middle Devonian (Givetian) trilobite clusters from eastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois / William J. Hickerson -- Epiboles, outages, and ecological evolutionary bioevents : taphonomy, ecological, and biogeographic factors / Carlton E. Brett and Gordon C. Baird -- Stromatolite biostromes as bioevent horizons : an example from the Middle Cambrian Ute Formation of the eastern Great Basin / Keith E. Eagan and W. David Liddell

Using time/environment analysis to recognize faunal events in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch / Steven M. Holland -- The utility of epiboles in the regional correlation of Paleozoic epeiric sea strata : an example from the Upper Ordovician of Ohio and Indiana / Robert C. Frey -- The Medusaegraptus epibole and Lower Ludlovian Konservat-Lagerstätten of eastern North America / Steven T. LoDuca and Carlton E. Brett -- Thicketing events : a key to understanding the ecology of the Edgecliff Reefs (Middle Devonian Onondaga Formation of New York and Ontario, Canada) / Thomas H. Wolosz -- Some Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) event beds (epiboles) / Ronald R. West, Howard R. Feldman and Christopher G. Maples -- The anatomy of the mid-early Silurian Ireviken event and a scenario for P-S events / Lennart Jeppsson -- Late Devonian bioevents in the Appalachian Sea : immigration extinction, and species replacements / George R. McGhee, Jr. -- Regional encrinites : a vanished lithofacies / William I. Ausich -- Cenomanian/Turonian bioevents and ecostratigraphy in the Western Interior Basin : contrasting scales of local, regional, and global events / Bradley B. Sageman [and others]

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